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One hundred years ago, because there were war-time restrictions in the state of Iowa prohibiting the use of any language other than English in public gatherings, a tent was erected in Minnesota, one mile north of the Lime Creek Lutheran Church. Some of the 1918 convention sessions were held in this sixty-foot square tent where…
One hundred years ago — on June 17, 1918 — at Lime Creek Lutheran Church in northern Iowa, our synod was reorganized as “The Norwegian Synod of the American Evangelical Lutheran Church.” The synod was contending for the same confessional doctrine of the old synod of 1853. In 1957 the name was changed to “Evangelical…
One hundred years ago, over two-hundred pastors and representatives from congregations were preparing to make their journey to Lime Creek Lutheran Church near Lake Mills, Iowa for the synod’s reorganizing convention which was to meet Friday, June 14, through Wednesday, June 19, 1918.
We are whiners, aren’t we? Nothing can be perfect, especially the weather. It’s always too rainy, or too dry, or too cloudy, or too sunny! As the heat of summer really begins to beat down, I’ve found myself whining about it more and more. One biblically bad whiner was the prophet Jonah. He whined about…
One hundred years ago, during the reorganization convention of the ELS, the Rev. Bjug Harstad, who was the first president of the newly formed church body, encouraged the small gathering. He referenced words from the book of Jeremiah: “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in…
The ELS has always had a commitment to Lutheran elementary education. It has been questioned if our present synod would ever have been organized if it had not been for the support of those who had been educated in Christian day schools. We may properly say that we owe our present existence as a Biblical-teaching synod in large…